Import Software Delivery Solution and Altiris® Patch Management Solution™ for Windows packages into the Wise Software Repository™ so that you can manage them from a centralized location.

Installation and Upgrade

Prerequisites

Wise Package Studio Professional Edition 6.01 or later installed on a computer on your network (Note: To use Wise Package Studio to edit or validate .MSI packages in the Altiris Console, Wise Package Studio must be installed on the same computer as Notification Server.)

Notification Server 6.0 R4 or later

Altiris Agent 6.0 or later on client computers that have Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, or Vista

Upgrade Issues

New Features in this Release

SQL Server 2005 Support

Wise Integration Component can pass information between Wise Package Studio's Software Manager database and the Notification Database when any of the databases use SQL Server 2005.

.VSA Package Support

When the status of a .VSA package is changed to Available in Software Manager, information about the package is automatically passed to Notification Server so that the package can be delivered with Software Delivery Solution. You do not need to manually create a package definition for the package because it is created for you.

Altiris Console 6.5 Support

Known Issues in this Release

With SQL 2005 (case-sensitive database collation), the following reports result in a SQL exception: Wise Software Repository packages by machine, Wise Software Repository packages by package, and unmanaged packages.

In localized versions of Notification Server, some portions of the user interface in Wise Integration Component are not localized.

If a package in the Wise Software Repository has been imported into Notification Server by the Wise Integration Component and you associate a task with that package (example: software delivery task), any changes to the status of the package in Software Manager will cause the import of the package to fail. You must delete the task for the import to succeed.

If a package in the Wise Software Repository has been imported into Notification Server by the Wise Integration Component and you then delete the package from the Wise Software Repository, the package is not deleted from Notification Server.

Altiris Information Resources

Source

What Information it Includes

Location

Altiris Documentation

Information about new features, update instructions, and known issues for each release. Includes Altiris formal documentation such as release notes, help, reference guides, best practice articles, and technical reference articles.